Welcome to hirosanblog! by Ryo Hirosawa, the first Japanese man who learned human echolocation from Juan Ruiz, Brin Bushway and Daniel Kish. photogenic instinct that hasn't die after losing his eyesight completely, he continues to see the world through the lens by sound.
廣澤亮トイウゼンモウデス。デ本人で初めて、米国で人間のエコー（ロケーション反響定位）の技術を学びました。
全盲になっても写真が趣味。盲人写真家(のつもりで)写真を多くちりばめながラ、シカクショウガイシャノシテンカラ、ブログヲシッピツシテイキマス。

Friday, September 23, 2011

The reply from Daniel / 舌打ち男からの返信

Within few hours from me sending the first email to Daniel Kish, the president of World Access for the Blind, I heard back from him with a lengthy mail, starting with appreciation of writing him.Secondly, he described my English 'beautiful' as most native speaker of English would not write as good.I am totally flattered, but I also thought he is just being polite. But, I soon find it is such a professional and thoughtful mail!

As the first and only certified blindness mobility coach in the United States of America, he started off with the length of my cane. He wrote I am using a rather short cane that comes to the chest-level, and he is totally right about it - I use a chest-height cane.I mentioned in my email to him that I have trouble walking in rural, mountainous area, and he suggested I should consider replacing my cane to a longer one, like the one that comes to my chin or nose.He gave me a few links to websites that support the idea of cane length.

Followed by the cane length consideration, he gave me a reading that contains the story of his first day at Kindergarten, using tongue clicks to find his desk in a room. It is such a adventure! From the reading, I learned he does not click his tongue madly - just click when he needs audible feedback!

An another story he shared was a diary of a mother whose son became blind. After learning echolocation technique, he became active!

After all, his response to my concern about staying home, will turn around if I adopt a long cane and learn to click -- to become active!

World Access for the Blindの主宰者、ダニエル・キッシュ氏にメールを送って数時間後、返事が来ました！返事の最初の方は、通常の挨拶的な内容でしたが、その後の内容が驚きでした。

About Me

Ryo Hirosawa is an advantitiously blind man since 2009, after suffering from glaucoma caused by Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Though I was given 1 year to live, I've lived over decades.
While this society in Japan tried to exclude me, I decided to fly to America to learn human echolocation to reclaim independence, freedom and responsibility. Now I have a skill to "see the world by sound" and still in the process of "recovery and discovery."
Photography is the part of my whole life, and the instinct never dies after becoming completely blind with absolutely no sense of light. Now I'm "seeing through the lens with sound" and continue shooting phothave a look at my photos on flickr or instagram under username "blindhirosan"
cheers and thanks for checking my profile!
ひろサワ亮と言います。特発性拡張型心筋症に起因する緑内障から、全盲になりました。引きこもりの毎日の中で、社会から疎遠になっていく自分を変えたいと思い、アメリカで人間のエコーロケーション（反響定位）を、ホワン・ルイズ、ダニエル・キッシュとブライアン・ブッシュウェイから学びました。絵エコロケーションの訓練の日々は、音による新しい発見の毎日でした。
失明以前から写真を撮るのが好きで、視覚障害者になって、写真を撮るのを諦めかけましたが、現在はエコーロケションを駆使して、全盲写真家のつもりで写真を撮っています。ほとんどの写真は、ウリッカーもしくはInstagram(blindhirosan)で公開していますので、どうぞご覧ください。